Girl was warned of chatrooms danger

The mother of a 15-year-old girl who is believed may have travelled to London after meeting a man on the internet has said she had warned her daughter of the dangers of speaking to people online.

Kerrie White, from Kirkheaton, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was last seen at the town's railway station on Wednesday.

West Yorkshire Police said it was thought the teenager had arranged to meet an unknown man in Leeds before travelling to London.

Kerrie's mother, Madge Gill, said she and Kerrie's father, Anthony White, had told their daughter about the dangers of meeting up with anyone she spoke to over the internet.

Ms Gill said Kerrie spent most nights talking to people on internet chatrooms and that men would telephone their home in the early hours of the morning.

"We always told her the risks of speaking to people on the internet but she said 'they're only 16' and didn't listen when I told her they could be anyone telling you what you want to hear," Ms Gill told the Halifax Evening Courier.

"I warned her never to meet up with anyone she'd met online. We both told her the dangers."

Ms Gill told the newspaper she had unsuccessfully tried to hack into Kerrie's chatroom account to look for clues as to where she may have gone. She urged her daughter to get in touch and come home.

Kerrie is described as 5ft 2ins tall, with curly red-brown hair, blue eyes and has a pierced naval with red bar. She was wearing a white T-shirt with a black pattern of a tiger face on the front, black belt, white jeans, gold sandals, light-coloured cardigan and was carrying a large brown bag.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said the teenager was last seen by her uncle shortly before midday. She told him she was travelling to Leeds, which has been confirmed by CCTV footage, before making her way down to London.